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The first name 
Hakob

Hakob is a first name for boys.

Hakob – a very rare name!

Recently, the name Hakob has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one boy in 100,000 has been named Hakob. That means that a boy named Hakob is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name his whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Hakob.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Hakob

Hakob -
something very, very special - even in his home state California!

If you’re looking for someone named Hakob, you might want to head to California. Why California of all places? Well, simply because, according to official statistics, there are no men or boys named Hakob living in any other state. However, we have to admit that a first name is only listed in the official statistics of a state if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it may well be that there are still a few men and boys named Hakob living in one state or another. But, in any case the name is extremely rare. (If your name happens to be Hakob and you live outside of California, we would be very grateful if you could let us know so that we can refine our statistics even further). By the way, even in California, the name Hakob is not really that common – there are only 19 men and boys with this name living there right now, which is not more than 0.00012% of all male residents of California – so if you are one of them, you can rightly say that you are someone very special!

Hakob has 5 letters 
and begins with an H

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter H is not particularly common as a first letter for boys' names: only 2.9% of all common boys' names in the US begin with an H. The most common first letters for boys' names are J and A, while X and U are the least common first letters of boys' names.

With five letters, the name Hakob is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

This means that if 2.9% of all boys' names begin with an H, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are of course some names that begin with H and are extremely popular, for example Henry, currently the most common boys’ name with H.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Hakob

If your name is Hakob and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Hakob

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Hakob, you can simply say:

Hat

Apple

Koala

Orange

Butterfly

This is how the name Hakob is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Hakob in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Hakob

Hakob

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Hakob

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Hakob is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

H
A
K
O
B

Have you ever waved the name Hakob

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

H
A
K
O
B

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Hakob sounds like this: